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dop en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /dɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɑp/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“dipper”) (compare dīepan), as in Old English dūfedoppa (“pelican”).

Meanings

1. A diving bird.

Forms

dop en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /dɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɑp/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”).

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
   • I dopped my exams.
2. To dip or duck.
   • Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. 1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:
   • you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

Forms

dop en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /dɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɑp/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Dutch dop, from Middle Dutch dop, dup, doppe, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, shell, bowl”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dop (“shell, pod, bowl”), German Topf (“pot”).

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, slang) . A drink.
   • Let's go to the bar for a dop.
2. (South-Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
   • Give me a dop of brandy.
3. (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
   • The Venetian dop this 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
4. (qualifier:diamond-cutting) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

Forms

Synonyms

doop (cup in which diamond is cut)

dop en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /dɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɑp/ (General-American)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Dutch dop, from Middle Dutch dop, dup, doppe, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, shell, bowl”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dop (“shell, pod, bowl”), German Topf (“pot”).

Meanings

1. (South-Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
   • They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop. 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170:

Forms

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